⁹ But the Lord God called to the man, “Where are you?”^(A)

⁶ The Lord regretted^(A) that he had made human beings on the earth, and his heart was deeply troubled.

¹¹ When the dove returned to him in the evening, there in its beak was a freshly plucked olive leaf! Then Noah knew that the water had receded from the earth.^(A)

⁵ But the Lord came down^(A) to see the city and the tower the people were building. ⁶ The Lord said, “If as one people speaking the same language^(B) they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them. ⁷ Come, let us^(C) go down^(D) and confuse their language so they will not understand each other.”^(E)

⁸ So the Lord scattered them from there over all the earth,^(F) and they stopped building the city.

⁶ When they heard this sound, a crowd came together in bewilderment, because each one heard their own language being spoken.